Chalk it up to CGI magic. Martial arts legend and action star Bruce Lee died 40 years ago, but whiskey purveyor Johnnie Walker has brought him -- or at least his likeness -- back to life. Its 90-second "Hail to the Game Changers" ad features Bruce Le...

Special effects have become so good that digital media artists can now create entire videos on their computers and make them look completely real, even if it's a UFO sighting. That's what filmmaker Aristomenis "Meni" Tsirbas has done with his stunnin...

In a homogenous, Hollywood-wide effort to leave no corner of your childhood unscathed, Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to The Brave Little Toaster in order to develop it as a computer-animated feature. For those not familiar with the 1...

A new film called Sight successfully tackles the subject of augmented reality, commenting on the potential impact of this rising technology. In the short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, we find out what it means to live in a virtual ...

When Mark Peters went on a fishing trip off the coast of Santa Cruz, Calif., he probably didn't think he'd bring home the most incredible underwater video footage we've ever seen -- but that's exactly what happened. Peters attached his GoPro Hero 2 c...

It's easy to lose yourself in the digital jungles of Avatar, the widescreen landscapes of The Adventures of Tintin or the uncannily human eyes of Caesar, star of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It's also easy to forget that all this wizardry had to b...

UC San Diego computer scientists intended to understand how to create rainbows digitally. And along the way, they made some discoveries about the physics of rainbows that occur in nature -- including the awe-inspiring double rainbow. “This goes beyon...

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